Re: CHAT: Back on the list; Anti-conlanging bigots

In a message dated 12/5/01 6:22:59 PM, trwier@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU writes:

<< I mentioned that I knew off the top of my

head of no natural languages which marked case in that way, though

I did know of a constructed language that did this. >>

    Had I known this before I created my first language, I would've created
some sort of case for objects of prepositions.  :(  What about languages with
no overt case marking, like Chinese?  (Note: I don't know Chinese; I'm just
asking.)

-David

"Zi hiwejnat zodZaraDatsi pat Zi mirejsat dZaCajani sUlo."
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near."
                --Jim Morrison

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